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The Balance of Roles: Graduate Student Perspectives during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Bal, Irene A.; Arslan, Okan; Budhrani, Kiran; Mao, Zixin; Novak, Kae; Muljana, Pauline S. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted personal and professional lives. Graduate students juggle a variety of roles and had to quickly adjust. In this article, six graduate students share their reflections regarding the influence of the pandemic on respective stages in their doctoral program. They provide unique personal and professional perspectives…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Attitudes, Student Role
The Nexus between Undergraduate and Graduate Reforms
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Wurst, Karin A. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
Aimed at Ph.D. programs in German, this article offers a broad framework to discuss the urgent issues facing our programs to stem the tide of (possible or even likely) disinvestment in German in times of fiscal hardship. Many conversations on suitable reforms tend to be held separately by different stakeholders -- teaching-focused faculty or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, German, Doctoral Programs, College Second Language Programs
Mentoring and Student Support in Online Doctoral Programs
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Kumar, Swapna; Coe, Catherine – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The increase in online graduate programs and the online mentoring of student research have led to the need to identify challenges faced by online mentees and successful strategies used by online mentors during the dissertation process. Based on semistructured interviews with ten graduates, strategies for online mentoring and areas of support…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mentors, Student Research, Supervisory Methods
Reconciling the Congruent and Contrasting Roles of Social Work Teacher, Student and Practitioner: An Experiential Account of Three Doctoral Students
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Sussman, Tamara; Stoddart, Kevin; Gorman, Eunice – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2004
Social work educators who are balancing the congruent roles of teacher and social work practitioner and the contrasting roles of student and teacher face unique challenges that have not been captured in the literature. This paper represents an experiential account of three doctoral candidates who were teaching while simultaneously occupying the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Epistemology, Social Work, Teacher Role
Discovering Collaborative e-Learning through an Online Writing Course
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Guth, Sarah – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
In this article Sarah Guth describes an online course for writing research articles in English she developed for engineering students at the University of Padua in Italy. Designed to overcome time-space constraints as well as to provide both linguistic and discipline-specific feedback, the course integrated peer editing as a key component of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
Mission, Goals, and Deeds: A Report to the University President.
Avis, Joan; And Others – 1983
The scope of the work of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco is discussed with reference to the university's mission and goal statements. These missions and goals reflect the aspirations of Roman Catholic and Jesuit education, along with the university's contemporary thinking on the proper relationship between faith and…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, College Role, Doctoral Programs